Academics, Artists, and Museums
Collaboration and interdisciplinary practice in the museum are on the rise. Academics, Artists, and Museums examines twenty-first century partnerships between the museum and higher education sectors, with a focus on art museums and exhibits.
The edited volume offers detailed analysis of how innovative curatorial relationships between museums and academia have sought to engage new, younger, audiences through the collaborative transformation of museums and exhibitions. Thematic topics explored include the forming and nature of interdisciplinary partnerships, the integration of museum learning into higher education, audience engagement, and digital technology. With a particular emphasis on practice in the US, the range of projects discussed includes those at both widely recognized and lesser known institutions, from The Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Tohono Oodham Nation Cultural Center in the US, to Ewha University Museum in South Korea, and Palazzo Strozzi in Italy. The role of art and the work of the artist are firmly positioned at the core of many of the relationships explored.
Academics, Artists, and Museums advocates for the museum as an experimental laboratory where academia, art and the museum profession can engage new audiences. It is a useful resource for museum professionals, artists, scholars, and students interested in collaboration and innovative practice.
Irina D. Costache is Professor of Art History, and Director of the Broome Gallery, at California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI), USA. She is an experienced exhibition curator and former President of Art Historians of Southern California.
Clare Kunny is a US-based art historian, educator, and administrator, with 30 years of experience working in and with museums. Focused on building bridges between the academy and the museum, she is the founder and director of Art Muse Los Angeles.
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The authors biographies reflect the titles and institutional affiliations as of November 2017 when the manuscript was submitted for publication.
Irina D. Costache is Professor of Art History and Director of the Broome Gallery at California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI). She received her doctoral degree from UCLA and specializes in modern and contemporary art and critical theory. She has lectured extensively nationally and internationally and has published on modern and contemporary art and culture in The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts, Achademia Leonardi Vinci, Film and Film Culture, Computing and Visual Culture, FATE in Review and other journals. Her recently published book, The Art of Understanding Art (Wiley, 2012) is an innovative introduction to art. The book has been translated into Chinese in 2015. She is also the co-author of the book Venezia/Venice (Sestante Edizioni, 2015) a visual essay about the two cities. The contemporary art exhibitions she curated in Los Angeles include Nature and/or Technology (2005), Postmodern Calligraphies (2009), So Close and Yet So Far (2012) and Global Voices, Diverse Narratives: One Medium, Video (2014) and Santi Visalli-A Life in Pictures (2015). Irina D. Costache served as Resident Director of the California State University International Program in Florence, Italy in 20122013 and 20172018. She was President of Art Historians of Southern California (AHSC) and served on the Board of Directors of College Art Association (CAA). Clare Kunny and Irina D. Costache have collaborated on several projects related to museums and the academia, including the interdisciplinary course The Museum: Culture, Business and Education (discussed in this text and taught at CSUCI since 2003). The projects in this class included the first Getty College Night developed by students in 2010discussed in this book. In 2014, they co-chaired a panel on this subject at the annual CAA conference in Chicago. In 2015 Clare Kunny organized a panel discussion at the annual conference of the AHSC entitled
